Research Guides: Music: Encyclopedias &amp; Reference

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Oxford Music Online
Encyclopedias, including Grove Music.
African American Music Reference
Short, basic info on all genres of African American music.
Classical Music Reference
Short, basic info about Western classical music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Articles on music of all the world’s peoples.
IPA Source
International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of art songs and arias.
RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
Records about manuscript and printed music sources, 1500-1800. Includes: Series A/I (individual printed music 1600-1800); Series A/II (music manuscripts 1600-1800); and part of Series B/I (printed music anthologies 1500-1550). Series B/IV (Manuscripts of polyphonic music, 11th-16th centuries) online in DIAMM http://www.diamm.ac.uk/ Series C and full Series B available in print only.